La. man admits to Internet chicken feet scam

Updated 8:59 am, Friday, February 1, 2013

A man cycles past chicken feet on sale in a market in Tongxian, a suburb of Beijing in 2004. In China and other Asian countries people consider the crunchy items a dining delicacy.

A man cycles past chicken feet on sale in a market in Tongxian, a suburb of Beijing in 2004. In China and other Asian countries people consider the crunchy items a dining delicacy.

Photo: GREG BAKER, AP

La. man admits to Internet chicken feet scam

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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A 25-year-old Baton Rouge man admits he used the Internet, an imaginary company and nonexistent supplies of frozen chicken feet to swindle a combined total of $166,000 from 13 wholesalers.

Chicken feet sometimes are processed into animal feed in this country, but people in China and other Asian countries consider the crunchy items a dining delicacy.

Terence Ndangoh was indicted by a federal grand jury in May on seven counts of wire fraud. The Cameroon national signed a plea agreement in August.

The Advocate report said Chief U.S. District Judge Brian A. Jackson sentenced Ndangoh Wednesday to 21 months in federal prison and ordered him to pay restitution of $138,000 that has not yet been recovered for his bilked buyers.